nirav February 27th, 2007
Alright, so Web 2.0 has been overused now, and you know about what it is. But there is a cool YouTube video that communicates it really well. Found it here, and like him, could not resist posting it up here.
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nirav January 25th, 2007
Somebody played a little hacking trick on me the other day. He used some Wordpress SQL injection vulnerability and changed the title of the blog!
It was interesting to see this. I actually liked his efforts. Cleaning up the thing was not difficult and thankfully we did not have any left overs! WP is now upgraded to 2.1. That should make things better for now!
nirav December 26th, 2006
Got to know of myFeedz today. It’s not a simple RSS reader application, or not a technorati clone. It understands and learns the kind of things you like to read, and presents them to you. You can specify the tags you are interested in and it will collect posts based on that. You can also let it know if it found something that was “off-topic” and does not interest you. It will try to avoid such items in the future. The look and feel of the site too is pleasing. And on top of this, it offers an RSS export facility, so you can set up the tags you are interested in, subscribe to the RSS feed and read all that in your favorite RSS reader.
Looks good. And if it does well on that “learning what you like” part, it can be a killer app!
nirav December 17th, 2006
Been getting a lot more spam lately, and Akismet fails to catch them. Have 1000+ caught by Akismet, and 300+ which are spam, but not caught by Akismet. And that over the last 3 days. That’s too bad for Akismet, or too good for the spammers. Have re-activated HashCash plugin, so let’s see what happens in the next few days.
On the other hand, popularity contest, the plugin that shows the most popular posts on the right, has a known issue. WordPress seems to have an issue with spam comments. So the posts which have more comments, even if they are marked as spam and not shown, will come up higher on the list. So the list you see on the right, are mostly pages, that are hit most often by spammers!
Got to check if the latest version fixes this, else fix it myself! I am bugged by this bug! Anyone got any fixes?
nirav April 30th, 2006
I wrote about comment spam I was getting on my blogs a while ago. I didn’t bother to do anything about it, but last week it just went out of hands.
I used to get about 250 spam comments everyday on both mehtanirav and TrustAndFreedom. The Magnet blog also gets lot of spam.
I didn’t want to install a Captcha on the blog as the server does not have GD support. And I fould WP-HashCash. It’s pretty simple to setup, does not require GD, and is 100% effective! I did not have any spam for the last three days!
I strongly recommend HashCash for anybody using WordPress!